Translating 🇮🇹: Michele Mari’s VERDIGRIS and YOU, BLEEDING CHILDHOOD, Lalla Romano's A SILENCE SHARED and IN FARTHEST SEAS, Walter Siti's PARADISE OVERLOAD
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17 Apr 2025
A sea of Lallas 🌊🌊
Working on this was not like translating a book, but like translating a whole human heart.
Out Aug 26 in the US & Sept 11 in the UK. Feel free to get in touch if you’d like to read it for a review! Fans include Jhumpa Lahiri, Ayşegül Savaş, Catherine Lacey💙
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My mayor is Muslim
My gardener is Lombard
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Book club at five ☠️
Gothic slug summer returns, this time at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
If you've read or have been looking for an excuse to read Michele Mari's Verdigris, join us for the book club discussion on June 11 (free and open to all). To RSVP:
iicnewyork.esteri.it/en/gli_…
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Adesso inizio a tifare sul serio ⚽️
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Michele Mari now shortlisted for Italy's most important prize, the Strega, after receiving by far the most votes out of any of the longlisted authors. Let's gooo! 🏅 @Einaudieditore
Sono stati appena annunciati i libri finalisti al #PremioStrega2026.
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over here it’s translated literature, lit fic with a healthy sprinkling of thrillers and horror 🙂↕️🤭
May 30
Is #Booktwt only about self-help books and classics?
What about romantasy, thrillers, horror, or dark romance?
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Gothic slug summer returns, this time at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
If you've read or have been looking for an excuse to read Michele Mari's Verdigris, join us for the book club discussion on June 11 (free and open to all). To RSVP:
iicnewyork.esteri.it/en/gli_…
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Michele Mari's latest (which is one of the multiple books I am / will be translating of his into English) has won the Premio Strega Giovani! 🎉🍷
May 27
«I convitati di pietra» di Michele Mari (Einaudi) vince la tredicesima edizione del #PremioStregaGiovani2026!
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The only thing these greatest books lists are good for is reminding me to say that when they did one for the 21st century in Italy, Walter Siti's Paradise Overload was rightly ranked no. 1. Forthcoming from Archipelago Books, excerpted here in @GrantaMag 😇granta.com/my-poor-parents/
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Translator wins top literary award for "daring" and "pitch-perfect" translation that leaves entire book in source language. "Maintains all the original flavor" praised the judges.
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I’ll be reading at this @stjordinyc party at 3pm tomorrow in the West Village. They’re celebrating soccer a bit this year so naturally I’ll be reading from Michele Mari’s O. Henry Prize-winning story “The Soccer Balls of Mr. Kurz” from You, Bleeding Childhood. Come hang out! ⚽️
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And right after me will be reading the one and only @PersonalRecords! Going to be a good time: stjordi.nyc/program
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Once Ben Lerner opens an autofictional novel by declaring how much he hates his poor parents, and then tries to kill one of them to get some extra cash to pay for a bodybuilding coke-addict gigolo, then we can talk. granta.com/my-poor-parents/
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category is: i love italian literature
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"Senta, un libro è un libro, non va letto per controllare. In un libro tutto è vero, niente è vero."
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My personal take on the week's discourse is that it was kinda weird last year trying to get people interested in a book where every line is pure and spare, essential poetry at the same time that much of the posting here centered around "books big". At least I felt original 🤷
18 Dec 2025
2025 for me was most of all a year of Lalla Romano.
A lot of people on here not only tolerated me singing her endless praises but even took me at my word and read her work—I’m really grateful for that. Proud to share this piece again on her eternal genius: lithub.com/lalla-romano-was-…
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For anyone who wanted to attend but couldn't, a recording of this panel on interlinguistic dialogue in Italian lit is now online. Naturally, I talked about Michele Mari, the Aristocats, and then more Mari 🐈⬛ youtube.com/watch?v=bWOE7Oiu…
Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5pm I'll be on this panel with Edwin Frank of @nyrbclassics, Michael Frank and Ann Goldstein at @CasaItalianaNYU – should be fun! For the festival Art and Craft in Translation. More info here: casaitaliananyu.org/events/i…
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Come and work with us! We’re looking for an Associate Publisher / Publishing Manager to join the team in Sheffield (hybrid). Deadline for applications is 20 April.
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Immediately told Ann I was going to make this my profile pic
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Apr 15
Unveiling our Issue Eleven Cover: ‘The Long Way’ by artist Jessica Brilli 🌊🚙🌵
Issue Eleven is out in late May, and features new writing by Sara Baume, Liadan Ní Chuinn, Lola Olufemi, and an interview with Rashid Khalidi.
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